How a Chicago Mom Liberated a Foreclosed Home and Got Her Four Kids Off the Streets -“Evicted from her childhood home when Cabrini Green public housing was demolished, Martha Biggs was evicted again from rental apartments that were in foreclosure. Over years of homelessness—moving around, staying in shelters, with relatives, and in her van—Biggs raised four children, sent them to school, worked to support them, and struggled to keep her family together.”
It’s a long read but a good one.

Single Mothers Are Not America’s Real Welfare Queens-“The attacks on single mothers are about peddling a paranoid fantasy to conservative audiences in order to keep them from thinking in any depth about the role that taxation and spending play in our nation’s economic wellbeing. As long as Fox News audiences are sitting around boiling with anger at imaginary women who supposedly rejected the traditional role of a housewife to be a sexually rebellious single mother living on the government dime, they aren’t thinking about how devastating to this country it really would be if we started slashing social spending so that our already outrageously wealthy elites could be even wealthier.”

Unpromising Promise Zones -“When it comes to reducing overall poverty, the solution is really very simple. You need to produce enough stuff and you need to make sure it is distributed a certain way. Countries that produce very little stuff will make larger strides on poverty by producing more of it. Countries that produce a lot of stuff will make larger strides on poverty by making sure the stuff is distributed effectively. The U.S. produces a lot of stuff.

So when you look at this list, the question to ask yourself is how will each item change the overall distribution of income in society?”

In Appalachia, Poverty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder-“I just ask when you portray us, please don’t portray us as ignorant hill folk, I guess,” Harless said. “Because we are educated. We’re poor, but we’re educated, and everyone’s pretty proud. It’s not a desolate place where no hope can be found.”

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